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- Controversial, revisionist challenge to the traditional interpretation of the nature of the Crusades
Concise and provocative, ideal for use by students in seminars
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What were the 'Crusades'? Were the great Christian expeditions to invade the Holy Land in fact 'Crusades' at all? In this radical and compelling new treatment, Christopher Tyerman questions the very nature of our belief in the Crusades, showing how historians writing more than a century after the First Crusade retrospectively invented the idea of the 'Crusade'. Using these much later sources, all subsequent historians up to the present day have fallen into the same trap of following propaganda from a much later period to explain events that were understood quite differently by contemporaries.
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CHRISTOPHER TYERMAN is Lecturer in Medieval History at Hertford College, Oxford, and Head of History at Harrow School.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Invention of the Crusades
Authors: Christopher Tyerman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26541-1
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Christopher J. Tyerman 1998
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-66901-3Due: 08 June 1998
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 184
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: History of Medieval Europe